GEORGINA CECILIA PÉREZ
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THE TRUTH THAT TEXAS TAXPAYERS DESERVE TO KNOW!

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"We can choose to hoard resources and segregate ourselves and flee the moment things feel uncomfortable."
from the podcast "Nice White Parents"

NICE WHITE PARENTS
Charter Schools: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Charter schools are privately run, publicly funded, and irregularly regulated. John Oliver explores why they aren’t at all like pizzerias.

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4 New IDEA Charters in El Paso & Odessa areas

8 Oct 2020 | Last week, Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath approved four new IDEA charter franchises that will be located in the El Paso and Odessa areas. The commissioner approved these new franchises through the charter amendment process.

As a reminder, the State Board of Education has final authority over the approval of new open-enrollment charter applicants. These applicants must submit their plans to the board and describe how they propose to use state funding provided by taxpayers to serve students in a specified geographical area. However, once an initial charter is approved, the charter operator can seek to amend its charter to open an unlimited number of new franchises anywhere in Texas. Approval of these charter amendments is at the sole discretion of the Commissioner of Education. Limited public notice is required, and there is no opportunity for public input.
4 New IDEA Charters

Additional Cost of Charters (Region XIX) 22 Sep 2020

Summary, in 2019-20:
  • Charters in El Paso cost the state and Texas taxpayers $7.8 million more than if the same students would have attended their home school districts.
  • El Paso ISDs with the largest number of transfers to charters lost an estimated $59.8 in revenue to charters.
22 Sep 2020 Update

Charter Amendment Approvals

Once an open enrollment charter is awarded by TEA through the application process, and the charter meets certain TEA requirements, it can open an unlimited number of new charter campuses anywhere in Texas through the charter amendment process. Approval of charter amendments is at the sole discretion of the Commissioner of Education; there is extremely limited public notice and no opportunity for public input.

A total of 736 new charter campuses were approved by the Commissioner across Texas between 2010 and 2019 through the charter amendment process.
Charter Amendment Approvals (31 OCT 2020)
Charter Amendment Approvals (30 Sep 2020)

Duplicative Tax-Payer Burden

The Legislative Budget Board confirmed the additional cost of charters to the state in a 2018 memo which estimated that Texas would have saved $882 million over the 2018-2019 biennium (over two years) if charters had been paid the same as the districts where the charters have the highest enrollment.
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LBB Memo

A STATEWIDE OVERVIEW

September 2020
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TRUTH IN CHARTERS - BY REGION

EL PASO, TEXAS

DOWNLOAD THE EL PASO REPORT
Source: Texas Education Agency
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ODESSA, TEXAS - Ector County ISD

DOWNLOAD THE ODESSA (ECISD) REPORT
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SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS - Harlandale, South San, & Southside ISDs

DOWNLOAD THE SA ISDs REPORT
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SAN ANTONIO AREA

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DALLAS, TEXAS

DOWNLOAD THE DALLAS REPORT
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NORTH TEXAS

DOWNLOAD THE N TEXAS REPORT
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Georgina C. Pérez, 1605 George Dieter #582, El Paso, Texas 79936.


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    • TXSBOE News 2019
    • TXSBOE News 2018
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  • Truth in Charters
  • Ethnic Studies
    • African American Studies
    • Mexican American Studies
    • Why Ethnic Studies: the data
  • TEKS REVIEW & INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
    • TEKS & Instructional Materials
    • Public Comment
  • Initiatives
    • Back2School
    • Building Libraries
    • Cotton Valley Scholars
    • Difference-Maker Awards
    • Dual Language
    • Every Student Every Day
    • GSA Student Pantries
    • International Baccalaureate
    • Learning Outside of the Classroom >
      • LOC - Cross Curricular
      • LOC - Culture & Fine Arts
      • LOC - Humanities and Literature
      • LOC - Language Learning
      • LOC - Physical Education
      • LOC - Pre-K
      • LOC - Social Studies
      • LOC - Special Needs
      • LOC - STEM
      • LOC - Virtual Field Trips
    • Path2Diploma
    • Texas' Long-Range Plan for Public Education
    • Texas Student Civic Engagement
    • The Mentorship Program
    • Trustee Breakfast
  • Useful Resources
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